Open Access Guide
Open Access allows academic information to be accessed online for free, enabling free use such as downloading, copying, distributing, printing, searching, and linking without financial, legal, or technical barriers. This is an academic information distribution model that emphasizes the openness and sharing of academic information, first proposed in the 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration.
What is Open Access?
- Free Access: All users can access academic information online at no cost.
- Free Use: Copying, distributing, printing, searching, linking, etc. are allowed within the legal scope.
- Barrier Removal: Removes financial, legal, and technical barriers to increase accessibility to academic information.
Types of Open Access
Gold OA (Gold Open Access)
- Overview: This is a method of publishing articles in open access journals to make them publicly available.
- Hybrid Journals: Journals that allow authors to choose whether to publish open access by paying an article processing charge (APC).
Green OA (Green Open Access)
- Overview: This is a method where researchers publish their articles by storing them in an institutional repository (e.g., OASIS) or archive (e.g., arXiv.org).
- Copyright Regulations: Pre-prints (pre-submission versions) or post-prints (post-review versions) can be published according to the journal’s copyright policy.
The Need for Open Access
Benefits for Researchers
- Academic research output can be utilized regardless of whether the affiliated institution subscribes.
- Increased accessibility to academic research output increases the impact of research.
- Researchers can exercise copyright over their research output directly without transferring it to the publisher.
Benefits for Universities
- Reduces the ever-increasing cost of journal subscriptions.
- Can systematically manage, promote, and disseminate research output using institutional repositories.
Reference Links
| Site name | Content |
|---|---|
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Directory where you can search for OA journals |
| Sherpa Romeo | Website that gathers Open Access policies of various publishers’ journals |
| SAFE Sound Academic Activity Support System | Platform that provides information to identify fraudulent or predatory academic journals and events |
| National Open Access Platform AccessOn | Platform that supports OA journal publishing and self-archiving |
| National Repository OAK | Integrated search for domestic institutional OA repositories |